redirecting old static site urls?
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- William E Dooley
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I had an old static site that we have but working on updating and changing into a joomla site. I am basiaclly finishednow, and ready to switch over to the new site. One thing I am wondering though. We use adwords ads, and have ads pointing to urls from our old static site. I am using artio joomSEF for the sef urls on the joomla site. Does anyone know of any way to setup some sort of redict so that when someone clicks on an adwords ad of ours and it tries to take them to the old static site url, to have it redirect and use the new joomla site joomsef url? Any ideas are appreciated, even if it's just a suggestion noone has tried, I'll give it a shot:)
Thank you,
David Henderson
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- Bruce Nazarian
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one way that comes to mind might be to use your root irectory .htaccess file to do specific URL re-directs.
It would be potentially a lot of programming, but you'd only have to do it once..
You can Google ,".htaccess redirect" and find how to do it easily..
Like here: http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/web-redirection.shtml
hth - dagnome
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- William E Dooley
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- Thanks, I will give that a try:) I suppose the first example they show will work for what I am trying to do. My situation is sort of odd though, as in I did to direct one url to another url within the same domain:) Never see any examples of that. Looks like that first example may do it though:)
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- William E Dooley
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Ok, I am not doing something right here, but I dont' know what. I made a text file of all of the redirects I want to do, and then pasted it into my htaccess file. I tried pasting it right after the code for the domain.com vs
www.domain.com
stuff, and I tried pasting it at the very end of the file. However, with both tries, when I tried to go to my site, I got a 500 internal error and the site would not come up. I followed the layout the sites all show for making the redirects.
Redirect 301 /oldpage.html www.example.com/newpage.html
mine look like this:
Redirect 301 /ProductPages/Products-UVLightlanding.htm 71.18.19.230/uv-lights/uv-lights.html
Redirect 301 /ProductPages/Products-city.htm 71.18.19.230/single-tank/city-water-soft...ems/single-tank.html
Redirect 301 /ProductPages/Products-commercial.htm 71.18.19.230/single-tank/commercial-syst...ems/single-tank.html
Redirect 301 /ProductPages/Products-coolers.htm 71.18.19.230/water-coolers/water-coolers.html
Redirect 301 /ProductPages/Products-filtering-media.htm 71.18.19.230/filtering-media/filtering-media.html
and so on.
I didn't really see anywhere in an of the pages telling you how to do this, where you are supposed to put it. I did read on one page that any additions you make to the htaccess file should be odne at the end, after adding a line break. Like I said, I tried it there, but still got a 500 internal error. Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Thank you,
David Henderson
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- Dave Roitner
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I think you can do that quite simply with OpenSEF. Go into manage friendly URL's and add the old URL and you can redirect it to any page you want in your joomla site.
I guess you would have to switch to OpenSEF from Joomsef. Let me know if you have any questions about OpenSEF. - Dave Roitner
www.messageimpact.com
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